Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.

Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

In fact, during the strikes I was often in the position of remonstrating with some of my more wayward colleagues who did not want to abide by our agreement.

Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom

"Wait till some other time, I—I don’t want to—"But her remonstrance came too late; Mandy had yanked her forward and was performing the introduction...

Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory

he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance.

Kate Chopin -- The Awakening

Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion.

George Eliot -- Middlemarch

But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg,

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

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And yet he has played her faithful lapdog ever since, never remonstrating, never accusing, never confronting her with his feelings.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

I shrugged my shoulders, however, and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated.

Bram Stoker -- Dracula

The other two were remonstrating with the one who had let us go.

Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

I cannot see you acting wrong, without a remonstrance.

Jane Austen -- Emma

...they had plundered and stripped the inhabitants, totally ruining some poor families, besides insulting, abusing, and confining the people if they remonstrated.

Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

His mind remonstrated with him over this thought, that part of his mind trained by his mother and his church.

Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

She might object, remonstrate, shed tears, talk of his being too old, and plead that her life would be rendered miserable.

Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

But at first chance Hamilton commenced to "remonstrate" against the mission to France.

David McCullough -- John Adams

And, in spite of all remonstrances and advices to the contrary, King Pelles struggled out of his costly robe, which he popped over Lancelot’s head.

T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

"But why are you angry?" remonstrated Tikhon,

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

Passepartout, desirous of respecting the gentleman whom he served, ventured a mild remonstrance on such conduct; which, being ill-received, he took his leave.

Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days

PICKERING [in good-humored remonstrance] Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings?

George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

The clerk crossed back to the desk, where a ... woman ... was remonstrating loudly.

Stephen King -- The Shining

"You shall not make a guy of yourself," remonstrated Meg,

Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women

Adam remonstrated, "What are you getting upset about?"

John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

"I didn’t arrange it," she remonstrated.

D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

There was a long, nagging argument that went round and round, with shouts, whines, tears, remonstrances, bargainings.

George Orwell -- 1984

Indeed, Professor McGonagall sank back into her chair at the staff table after a few feeble remonstrances and...

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In the beginning of spring she had the garden turned up from end to end, despite Bovary’s remonstrances.

Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

Finally Haie stood Himmelstoss on his feet again and gave one last personal remonstrance.

Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

The last word grated on me; but how could I remonstrate!

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

sufficiently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl

Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

A nation has a right to argue, remonstrate, implore, and present the cause of its race,—which an individual has not.

Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom’s Cabin

But none of them had the courage to remonstrate with him.

Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

After some ineffectual remonstrance I kept away from him, staying in a room—evidently a children’s schoolroom—containing globes, forms, and copybooks.

H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

Just before the books came, Mr. Gilman had begun to remonstrate with Miss Sullivan on the ground that I was working too hard, and in spite of my earnest protestations, he reduced the number of my recitations.

Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

"I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."

Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

At any other time, this remonstrance, and the tone in which it was delivered, would have had the desired effect; but the girl being really weak and exhausted, dropped her head over the back of the chair, and fainted, before...

Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

’My dearest,’ I remonstrated, ’don’t talk preposterous nonsense!’

Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

Yet, though so well acquainted with this amiable weakness, no individual among his parishioners chose to make the black veil a subject of friendly remonstrance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister’s Black Veil

Peter remonstrated earnestly.

Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

She saw her father’s face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother’s, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter’s pathway.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

...for these reasons, I was willing to overlook his eccentricities, though indeed, occasionally, I remonstrated with him.

Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street

His spirit recoiled, however, in the very act, and Georgiana, out of the midst of her deep sleep, moved uneasily and murmured as if in remonstrance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

...Snap occasionally desisting in order to remonstrate with the cat by a cogent worrying growl on the greediness and futility of her conduct; till Eppie relented, caressed them both, and divided the morsel between them.